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This is great, it will take to great improvements in Open Source drivers for Linux and other platforms, and generally improve support for GPUs when they become older.



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Chazore said:
HoloDust said:
Chazore said:

.... again it proves that we still have yet to see a middleground AA option that does a good job and doesn't end up crippling your frames.

I think we already have one (SMAA T2x), it's just that you need 60fps for ghosting on slow moving objects not to be noticable.

Oh yeah I almost forgot SMAAx2, the thing is we'd need more games supporting that over say FXAA which seems to be the go to choice for most games on PC.

Yeah, it seem strange how lot of devs keep avoiding it, although it's quite superior to FXAA with similar fps impact (Crysis 3 bench):





I am surprised to see more AMD folks here. I went back to Nvidia after having too many issues with my ATI card. More power to you if you are happy with your's.



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HoloDust said:
Chazore said:

Oh yeah I almost forgot SMAAx2, the thing is we'd need more games supporting that over say FXAA which seems to be the go to choice for most games on PC.

Yeah, it seem strange how lot of devs keep avoiding it, although it's quite superior to FXAA with similar fps impact (Crysis 3 bench):



Also I've noticed I have a new dislike for TAA over on Star Wars Battlefront since it blurs quite a lot of the overall image. It certainly gets rid of a lot of the shininess and jagged edges but boy does it smear Vaseline all over your screen, some people have found that upping the quality res can bring back some sharpness though it will cost some frames for some cards and DSR is probably a nope as being a more viable solution.

I do think we should move on from spamming FXAA in most games, well at elast leave it as the bottom option for AA and sort out the beefy AA options from those that tend to do a better job while not taking too much FPS, I mean TAA and TXAA so far are known as frame hitters with both forcing their own form of blur.



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slab_of_bacon said:
I am surprised to see more AMD folks here. I went back to Nvidia after having too many issues with my ATI card. More power to you if you are happy with your's.

My last nVidia card was GeForce4 Ti4400 some 13 or so years ago, switched to ATI due to how anemic FX 5xxx series was, and kinda stuck with them (even missed 8800GT bandwagon)...but if their 14nm GPU's don't deliver or devs keep using Gameworks, I think I'll need to switch back to nVidia again.



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slab_of_bacon said:
I am surprised to see more AMD folks here. I went back to Nvidia after having too many issues with my ATI card. More power to you if you are happy with your's.

I changed to Nvidia after Ati vanished...





well i have my ati on my PS4 , and my Nvidia on my dektop PC, lol, but seriously i almost buy Ati with the Radeon 280x, but it consume much power and generate more heat and also it's bigger then my GTX 960. And also several games and most of the games actually run better with gtx 960. so thats that. And of course when moding games nvidia driver seems work with everything.



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